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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) - Paperback

by Dave Barry
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dave BarryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-08-05Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780425221655ISBN-10:425221652UPC:9780425221655Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:Form, TopicBook Topic:Essays, PoliticsSize:8.20 x 5.52 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC81WMV4R7
A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.

Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?

That didn't happen. Right?

But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian's robe (it's plush terrycloth) and revisits the defining moments in our country's recent history, from the Bush years to-jeez, it's still the Bush years! As an added bonus, Barry quickly "we're busy here" tosses in the complete history of the last millennium, covering crucial turning points such as the invention of the pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to tech support).

Fellow Americans, the time has come to bone up with Barry as he puts the hysterical in history.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780425221655ISBN-10:425221652UPC:9780425221655Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:Form, TopicBook Topic:Essays, PoliticsSize:8.20 x 5.52 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC81WMV4R7
From 1983 to 2004, Dave Barry wrote a weekly humor column for The Miami Herald, which in 1988 won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestsellers as the nonfiction Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster), You Can Date Boys When You're Forty, and I'll Mature When I'm Dead; the novels Big Trouble, Tricky Business, and Insane City; the very successful YA Peter Pan novels (with Ridley Pearson); and his Christmas story The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog. Two of his books--Big Trouble and Dave Barry's Guide to Guys--have been turned into movies. For a while, his life was even a television series, Dave's World, but then it was canceled. The series. Not the life. For many years, Dave was also a guitarist with the late, infamous, and strangely unlamented band the Rock Bottom Remainders.
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

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